What is personality? Some may define personality as how someone acts, feels or even thinks. According to Huffman and Dowdell (2015), the definition of personality is “ a unique and relatively stable pattern of thoughts, feelings, and actions.” Every person has his or her own unique personality; it makes you different from everyone else. When describing someone’s personality words like nice, shy, annoying, or funny are often used. These types of words are the foundation for the trait approach; they form the core of the human personality (Huffman and Dowdell, 2015).There are thousands of describing words that can be used, which makes describing someone’s personality more complex than it should be (Cherry, K. 2015).
The Five-factor theory was developed to solve this problem. It is a condensed version of the thousands of words used to describe someone’s personality. The five-factor model includes five traits openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. The five- factor personality test was developed to help you figure out what your strongest personality traits are, as well as you weakest traits. This test is …show more content…
In my opinion, nothing can be 100% correct when you’re dealing with individual personalities because of how different people are from one another. According to The Big Five Personality Traits (2015), although a lot of research has gone into the five-factor model there are some weaknesses.
Some of the weakness include but not limited to: there isn’t a theory behind the five-factor model; meaning there is no theoretical reasoning on how these traits came about, the five factors are not independent, and it does not explain some personality traits such as religion, honesty, etc. (The Big Five Personality Traits, 2015). Therefore, considering this information, the five-factor model/test is not fully accurate but, for the most part, is has the right
The Five-factor theory was developed to solve this problem. It is a condensed version of the thousands of words used to describe someone’s personality. The five-factor model includes five traits openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. The five- factor personality test was developed to help you figure out what your strongest personality traits are, as well as you weakest traits. This test is …show more content…
In my opinion, nothing can be 100% correct when you’re dealing with individual personalities because of how different people are from one another. According to The Big Five Personality Traits (2015), although a lot of research has gone into the five-factor model there are some weaknesses.
Some of the weakness include but not limited to: there isn’t a theory behind the five-factor model; meaning there is no theoretical reasoning on how these traits came about, the five factors are not independent, and it does not explain some personality traits such as religion, honesty, etc. (The Big Five Personality Traits, 2015). Therefore, considering this information, the five-factor model/test is not fully accurate but, for the most part, is has the right